scissor

Reikšmė

1. Attributive form of scissors.
2. One blade on a pair of scissors.
3. Scissors.
4. Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack.

Dažnis

Tariama kaip (IPA)

/ˈsɪzə/

Etimologija

From Middle English cysour, cysoure, cysowre, altered from sisours (“scissors”); ultimately from Latin caedere (“to cut”); current spelling influenced by Latin scindere, scissus (“to split”).

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Nauja

scissors

1. A tool used for cutting thin material, consisting of two crossing blades attached at a pivot point in such a way that the blades slide across each other when the handles are closed.
2. A type of defensive maneuver in dogfighting, involving repeatedly turning one's aircraft towards that of the attacker in order to force them to overshoot.
3. An instance of the above dogfighting maneuver.
4. An attacking move conducted by two players; the player without the ball runs from one side of the ball carrier, behind the ball carrier, and receives a pass from the ball carrier on the other side.
5. A method of skating with one foot significantly in front of the other.
6. An exercise in which the legs are switched back and forth, suggesting the motion of scissors.
7. A scissors hold.
8. A hand with the index and middle fingers open (a handshape resembling scissors), that beats paper and loses to rock. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.